Alliance for Water Stewardship

Nestlé has committed to achieve zero waste to landfill status in all US factories by 2020 and pledged to expand its use of recycled content to by the end of 2016. Both waste management commitments coincide with the release of Nestlé’s second corporate sustainability report, published this week. Nestlé’s Creating … Read more »

Ecolab’s manufacturing plant in Taicang, China, is the first site in the world to be independently certified under the Alliance for Water Stewardship’s global standard for water stewardship. The ASW Standard is an ISEAL-compliant framework developed to promote sustainable freshwater use and to evaluate water stewardship practices. This globally consistent … Read more »

Nestlé says it is investing in technology to help reduce the water it uses in California at the five water bottling plants and four facilities where food or petcare products are manufactured. Last year in Mexico, Nestlé opened its first “zero water” plant, which extracts all the water it needs … Read more »

Ecolab, working with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), has signed on as a founding partner of the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) to support the launch and implementation of the International Water Stewardship Standard, a global framework to promote sustainable water use. AWS announced the standard in April at the … Read more »

The Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS), a global collaboration focused on sustainable water resource management, today announced an agreement with The Water Council to represent AWS in North America. This announcement builds on recent commitments from top corporations, including Nestlé and General Mills to support AWS, and on the recent … Read more »

So far 12 companies, utilities, and communities in Brazil, Canada, China, India, South Africa and the US have confirmed that they will implement the Beta AWS Standard, which the Alliance for Water Stewardship calls the world’s first international water stewardship standard. Foz | Saneatins, the water utility in the Brazilian state of Tocantins, is … Read more »